Swamp Ghost: The Lazarus Protocol

by Edmond Bergeron

In the waning days of the Cold War, peace is on the horizon at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., while shadows lengthen across the globe. Micah Storm, Louisiana-born, Cajun-raised ghost operative, lives between two the swamp that raised him and the covert missions that defined him.
When elite operator, Peter Jason, collapses during a special ops mission, clinical laboratory scientist, Bethanie Koren, and Physician Assistant, Leigh Michaela, uncover traces of a synthetic compound in his blood—evidence of sabotage hidden beneath the guise of endurance supplements. Dr. Carmela Daniels, a Pentagon operations analyst, connects the dots to a covert shipping experiment known only as the Lazarus Protocol, an initiative designed not to strengthen America’s finest, but to dismantle them quietly.
Storm learns that Jason, a fellow brother-in-arms, is down, and the conspiracy becomes personal. From the cypress-lined waterways of Terrebonne to the classified corridors of the Pentagon, Storm must navigate a battlefield where the enemy is unseen, the weapon is disguised as salvation, and the first casualties are the very operatives sworn to protect the nation.
The Lazarus Protocol is a geopolitical thriller that fuses technical realism with atmospheric suspense, exposing how fragile peace can be when war is fought in silence.

214 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 7, 2025

About the author

As I remember it, life began on top of a load of furniture in a sleigh drawn by a team of horses on a bitterly cold day. My mother was walking alongside in the snow when the moment arrived. She claims it was Valentine’s Day, and of all people, she should know.

I attended a one-room school house outside of the French Canadian town of Mascouche, Quebec, and later in the metropolis of Montreal. At some point, an overworked school teacher wrote a note home to my mother to say that someday I would be a writer. The rest of the family laughed.